Robot names and Team mottos

[thedude019]

Our robots name is science and our team name is SHARP
its an acronym which stand for Sarah Heinz Advance Robotics Program
we are a team from one of the boys and girls clubs of America

[nicolejoie]

My team, STORM Robotics, names their robot every year like the weather stations name storms (alphabetically and by reversing gender). For example, during breakaway our robot was named Brave Beckham. Then it was Crimson Claw during logomotion and last year it was Donald Duct.

This year it was an E and a female so 2729's robot name is Electra!

Also our team motto is: "Fall 27 times, Stand up 29."

[TedG]

Our team motto as of last year: "Building Engineers One Robot at a Time"
Befor that it was "Soaring With The Eagles"

Our robot names usually have something to do with the robot's characteristics.
2010: Rex (a student named it "Kicka$$asauras Rex", like a dinasaur)
2011: Jack (robust design, Quality award winner, annoucer said "It could double as a floor jack for Dean Kamen's Hummer", we named it after comp.)
2012: Arty (as in artillery: shooting balls at great distances)
2013: Sherman (as in sherman tank, it was 120.00 lbs even at weigh in)


Other fun facts:

Our team name is "Bonny Eagle Robotics Team"
(associated with Bonny Eagle High School, Standish Maine)
Nicknames we use "BERT" or "BERT 133" or "B.E.R.T."

Our logo was created by the students in 2010-2011, a Scottish eagle/coat of arms. We've adjusted the logo a little every year since for the tshirts and advertising, but keeping the over all concept for continuity.

[Libby K]

Team 1923 has named their robot "Ro-BART" this year, in honor of a team parent and mentor who passed this year - my dad.

They will be honoring him at the Championship this year, and it means so much to me and to my family.

[TedG]

Originally Posted by TedG

Our team motto as of last year: "Building Engineers One Robot at a Time"
Befor that it was "Soaring With The Eagles"

Our robot names usually have something to do with the robot's characteristics.
2010: Rex (a student named it "Kicka$$asauras Rex", like a dinasaur)
2011: Jack (robust design, Quality award winner, annoucer said "It could double as a floor jack for Dean Kamen's Hummer", we named it after comp.)
2012: Arty (as in artillery: shooting balls at great distances)
2013: Sherman (as in sherman tank, it was 120.00 lbs even at weigh in)
....

It's official, BERT's robot name for 2014 is "Pneuman".
aka: "Newman"

For all the pneumatics on it this year, because we/they ususally don't use much pneumatics.. or any if possible.

This year they decided to go with it, seems to work great!

[zachrobo1]

Circuitrunners Team 1002s motto is "Move from Potential to Kinetic" and although we haven't named our robot yet, there is a funny backstory to our outreach robot's name.
In 2012, we had a turntable on our basketball shooter. Our robot weighed too much, so it had to go. That year's robot then got the name TRFKAT (The Robot Formerly Known As Turntable). Then, when we repurposed it as a t-shirt launcher this year, we renamed it to be TRFKAT^2 (The Robot Formerly Known As The Robot Formerly Known As Turntable).

[pfreivald]

Originally Posted by TedG

It's official, BERT's robot name for 2014 is "Pneuman".
aka: "Newman"

For all the pneumatics on it this year, because we/they ususally don't use much pneumatics.. or any if possible.

This year they decided to go with it, seems to work great!

We avoided pneumatics for years, because we didn't know what we were doing and were afraid of messing up our whole season. We played with them as an off-season project and came to the conclusion that, um, yeah, everyone should have pneumatics in their wheelhouse when they're brainstorming, prototyping, and planning. Congrats on taking the plunge!

[Canon reeves]

Last year our robot was named Stanley, this year it'll be the funk! Our team is named "That One Team"

[Jacob Bendicksen]

We always build a prototype along with our competition robot, and their names always play off of each other.
Last year was Dante + Inferno.
This year is Gemini + Apollo.
#soNASA

[TedG]

Originally Posted by pfreivald

We avoided pneumatics for years, because we didn't know what we were doing and were afraid of messing up our whole season. We played with them as an off-season project and came to the conclusion that, um, yeah, everyone should have pneumatics in their wheelhouse when they're brainstorming, prototyping, and planning. Congrats on taking the plunge!

Thanks, it wasn't my decision though, I just drop by and help out the team on occasion.

Yes we've been avoiding pneumatics for years because of the weight and time it takes to charge tanks for thier specific purposes.

I think this game is a good fit for pneumatics becuase alliances are only handling one ball at a time during teleop, so there *should* be time to keep the air tanks full for thier next function.

Good luck everyone!!

[Al Skierkiewicz]

We have never named our robot and unofficially our motto is "Never Done" from a video we made a long time ago.

[Lightfoot26]

1625 has had a variety of names over the years!
2009: Snuggles
2010: Little Bridges
2011: Mr. Cringerpants
2012: Esmeralda the Cycloptic T-Rex Boxer
and 2013: Dale (In honor of our EXTREMELY supportive sponsor, Dale Falconer, who recently fell very ill.)

Our motto has bounced around from time to time, but I think the one we all agree on is: "In theory, it should work."

[Alex2614]

I guess MARS is kind of boring with their robot names.

08- Marvin I
09- Marvin II
10- Marvin III
11- Marvin IV (Beta and Alpha)
12- MarVin (Beta and Alpha)
13- MarVIn (Beta and Alpha)

Right before we traveled to our first (FIRST) competition our rookie year, a newspaper reporter asked us what the robot's name was while he was taking pictures in the machine shop. We had to come up with a name quickly, someone thought of Marvin Martian, and the name just stuck through all these years.

We've had some interesting practice robots and donated robots from folded teams in the area, including

Kick-me
Sparky (the one that caught fire)
Dumbot (our rookie year version of a practice bot)
Smartbot
ParadeBot (aka Marvin from our team logo) - Featured in the children's storybook "Marvin the Friendly Robot. He likes to play soccer, eat nuts and bolts, and sometimes he gets hurt, but his friends help him get better

We did an off-season intra-team competition a while back, where the robots were Phobos and Diemos. I think we had similar names for our minibots in 2011, but I can't remember.

While not necessarily a robot name, we named a particular part of our robot last year the "MARS Probes" because they "probed" a ball out of a corner.

In my opinion, our motto is pretty unique.
"We came to be inspired. We stay because we are. We will become the inspiration." It was slightly modified and used in the script when our mentor won the CMP WFA last year :')

[treffk]

Team motto: Temptest Fuget (or Time flies if you don't speak latin)

Robot Names
2006: Stealth
2007: Stealth 2.0
2008: Stealth 3.0
2009: Stealth 4.0
2010: Stealth 5.0
(I bet you can't guess what our team name is)
2011: Audrey-after a student that passed away during the season
2012: Laurence-A sponsor who had be donating to us since 2006 had passed away. We decided to honor him by naming the robot after him. He is sorely missed by the mentors and alumni mentors on the team.
2013: Earnie(unofficially, the name was never added to the robot) This was based after my father, who the students absolutely adore, for letting us take over his mancave and shop for all of build season.

[Mason987]

Our robot is always named with a Vegas theme, this year being The Dealer. We've also managed to incorporate a major sponsors name into a few robot names as well. pITTboss for ITT, and so forth.

As for the motto's, i can think of three that we love:
"How can we make this into a turret?"
"Is THIS your card?"
and the one that we prefer the most is "It's not enough".